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Laundries

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  • Crimean War: drying closet as used by Scutari Hospital. Wood engraving.
  • Nurses in the laundry of a hospital. Photograph, 191-.
  • The hospitals have first claim on the output of the laundries : this and other priority work for the services is keeping us busy, but, we hope in a very short time to be able to give you a much better delivery service ... / The Retford Laundry.
  • A diagram of a kitchen and a wash house for laundry and washing dishes, with sinks and cooking ranges. Engraving by Bingley after T. Haywood.
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    Crimean War: drying closet as used by Scutari Hospital. Wood engraving.

    | Reference: 21254i
    • Pictures
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    Nurses in the laundry of a hospital. Photograph, 191-.

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1919?] | Reference: 726399i
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    A diagram of a kitchen and a wash house for laundry and washing dishes, with sinks and cooking ranges. Engraving by Bingley after T. Haywood.

    Haywood, T., active 1811. | Reference: 29249i
    • Books

    Talk of the wash house / Peter Ellison & Paulette Howe.

    Ellison, Peter, 1947- | Date: 1997
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    The hospitals have first claim on the output of the laundries : this and other priority work for the services is keeping us busy, but, we hope in a very short time to be able to give you a much better delivery service ... / The Retford Laundry.

    | Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]
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